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I really love the idea that the Hummer EV has which is a row of large (hopefully clicky?) switches that each have a tiny display above them indicating their function. They can be reprogrammed by the user, but still interacted with entirely by feel. I'd loove to see this concept taken to much greater lengths! User-programmable knobs, toggles, buttons, etc., with tiny embedded displays that aren't (too) modal in use.

Disclaimer: I haven't actually been inside the vehicle.

I don't want to speak for bobsmooth either but I'll take their comment at face value until given reason otherwise.

I agree with the sentiment, I think it's underrated. I live a fairly hedonistic life and I'm overall a very happy and content person. But I think hedonism only brings value in the context of an otherwise stable life at its foundation. You could make the argument that it's the stability that brings me happiness, but I've introspected about this a bunch and the pursuit of pleasure really does bring a large chunk of the sustained happiness.

As an aside, one of the common warnings/issues with hedonism is the hedonistic treadmill; that we become accustomed to our current pleasures and receive diminishing returns. But the way I think I get around that by rotating between various pleasures, so once I come back to one in particular it's once again novel.

Do note that that calculator uses different units for air travel and car travel. It uses MtCO2e for air and kgCO2e for car travel. When I went to the calculator I saw the same as you, but it turns out that with a few dozen flights a year that's still a few times the carbon (once converted to kg) generated by my electric vehicle (presumably from avg power plant emissions).

I can't help but re-watch this entire video in full every time I come across it. What an amazing documentation.

I wonder what next transition looked like to them. I imagine the most significant change was moving from paste ups to digital layouts in the 90s.

By that logic you shouldn't buy anything at any time besides food and shelter because that money could be $$$ after appreciating for years or decades.

We only live one life, you can't try to optimize every dollar. There's a tremendous price on "investing" in your own happiness throughout every part of your life.

Your driving comment made me giggle and then I continued scrolling on. I think it was lighthearted and fine as it was, just my input.

Who do we trust for longevity? On the other end of the spectrum is Google which also shutters many (most?) of their products after 24-48 months.

> Unless it’s a work vehicle, emergency services, there’s no reason to drive such a thing around a city.

I live in a city and purchased an electric car for scuba diving, something I do regularly and wouldn't be able to do without it. According to the website, they'd have no problem deflating my tires. How can that be justified?

For a good chunk of the pandemic I used PlateJoy which did just this. You gave it preferences, and it told you what meals you were going to make that week and a consolidated shopping list.

I enjoyed it a lot, but eventually my life got too busy to cook that often and I was growing slightly tired of the recipes, plus they got acquired so I don't know what their future holds. But maybe you'd find them valuable?

Do they? I've ridden plenty of ubers in the past year and haven't noticed any such disinfecting.

I'm not sure which museum in Everett you're referring to. Up north in Everett there's the Boeing Factory with their associated corporate Future of Flight museum, which is fairly small. Factory tour is extremely cool though, I've done it at dozen times with visiting friends (pre-covid) and it was always neat.

And then south of Seattle at the Boeing Air Field is the Museum of Flight. I don't believe it's associated with Allen? Museum of Flight is alive and well, and I highly recommend anyone visiting Seattle swing by and spend a few hours there!

I live in Seattle and hadn't heard of this! Excited to check it out.

I'm still mourning the loss of our Living Computers Museum, maybe this can fill that hole in my life at least a little bit.

That's a fair point!

Or you can look at the source and see the list of words. They're sequential, so you know every future word. The "Wordle 222" is actually just the 222 index into the array.

Myself and many people I know can't stand permanent WFH and specifically seek jobs with offices.

Hey Varun, this is fantastic and I see a ton of good technical and ux decisions made here, esp. for your age! As someone who was pursuing similar stuff at your age, all I can say is you've got a really fun career just ahead.

It's so valuable working on these kinds of projects, where you're not just building things for yourself but actually building things for your peers to use. It'll create a feedback loop where you're iterating towards actual people's needs. Keep working on projects that people around you can use and you'll go far!

And just a FYI for Windows 10 users, during some update they recently added Win+V to show the system's built-in clipboard manager.

It's actually a really cool design, the entire white half of the shell _is_ the speaker diaphragm!

> Everyone says they hate meetings, but they schedule them compulsively anyway.

That's because everyone just hates other people's meetings.

I think there's different types of work/life balance. Temporal, spatial, social, etc. Some people strive to keep their work and personal locations explicitly separate. Others set timers and hard boundaries as to exactly when they're "working." Others avoid mixing their personal social lives with work social lives.

The person you're replying to is pretty similar to me, where I use the fact that I have a physical office as my work/life boundary. But I also don't shy away from having a social life when I'm within the work side of the boundary, and another social life when I'm on the outside. If you spend 1/3 of your life on the inside, you can have fun there without contradicting your personal work/life balance.

Surely HBO will be trending on twitter within the hour. The engineer should get a raise :)

You had 18+ years spending 24/7 with your parents. Also, I'm sure the weekly calls aren't quite enough from their end, they never are for a parent--understandably!

"First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?"

Discover Weekly is once a week: on Mondays. You're thinking of Daily Mixes, of which there are 6 that update throughout the week, one playlist per day.

To go along with Discover Weekly there's also a Release Radar playlist that updates every Friday with that week's new releases from your artists.

Spotify is so deeply engrained into my weekly schedule that I really look forward to the Discover Weekly and Release Radar playlists bookending my work weeks.

You kinda did though.

> "they look so clean...sacrificing ergonomy, since the aesthetic is what they are selling, so they can't look gnarly, black...like an actual musical device."

You're arguing that because they are a status symbol and have to look "clean and minimalist" they can't look black like an actual music device looks like. Of which I think your main point in that statement is that OP-1 != "actual music device".

Did I interpret it incorrectly?

Dive watches aren't for diving, divers use dive computers. But lots of musicians seem to use OP-1s...

> black and full of ports and cables like an actual musical device.

Why does an "actual music device" have to be a certain color? I don't follow most of you argument, but especially that.

I like them purely because it's unbelievably distinctive -- just like the old fleet IMO

But it's never enough proof, the goal posts never stop moving. We can't keep playing the game forever, or we'd be paralyzed as a society.

For example, there were two months of audits, recounts, and countless court cases. The skeptics wanted an additional "ten day audit" on top of this, which would have consequences for the transition. After that audit, how do we know they'd have been satisfied? Nothing in the past has demonstrated their ability to be satisfied.

It's higher fidelity than 320 kbps. Not remotely higher fidelity than FM or CD quality audio. But I've A/B tested songs I know inside and out on the same equipment using both vinyl and 320 kbps mp3 and I can hear the difference night and day.

But the main reason I listen to it is not that it's better than Spotify, but that it's a physically beautiful medium with artwork and is still high quality while promoting active, intimate listening.